THE ACT
A journal of Performance Art, Activities, Happenings, Events, Choices



Selected Articles & Issues | About
Selected Articles and Issues:


1986
Ethics, Holding/Releasing, Spectacle/Hallway, Pastoral
Allan Kaprow : Tail Wagging Dog
Jeffrey Greenberg : Levitation  

Artists: Jacques Chwat, William Pope.L, Allan Kaprow, Bruce Barber, Chris Kraus, Sylvere Lotringer, Bradley Eros, Aline Mare, Jeffrey Greenberg, Ellen Zweig, Henry Sayre, Gavin Searle, Penelope Wehrli, Toyo, R.L. Seltman, Arelene Schloss, Charles Allcroft, Jenneth Webster, Richard Gessner

1987
Perseverance, Striving

Toine Horvers : Drumming  
Jeffrey Greenberg : My Performances with Him

Artists: Eugenio Barba, Jacques Chwat, Laurie Perricci, Penelope Wehrli, Charles Allcroft, Jeffrey Greenberg, Kristine Stiles, Kenneth Gaburo, Gary Goldberg, Morgan O'Hara, Laura Foreman, Frank Green



1988-89
Jacques Chwat Memoriam, The Body
Toine Horvers : BALANCE 5
Section page for The Body issue  
Action words

Artists: Andre Gregory, Joel Honig, Jerzy Grotowski, Simone Forti, Jeffrey Greenberg, Toine Horvers, Allan Kaprow, Ken Jacobs, Angelika Festa, Ammon Denziger, Uri Katzenstein, Linda Montano, Colette, Frank Moore
 1990
Against the Spectacle
Private and Interpersonal Experiment,
Social & Political Activity

Artists: Gran Fury, Allan Kaprow, Jeffrey Greenberg, Clemente Padin, Geoffrey Hendricks, Charles Allcroft, Eugenio Barba, Suzanne Lacy, Toine Horvers, Nina Sobell, William Peterson, Carolee Schneemann, Max Below, Kim Irwin, Mikowaj Smoczynski, Aviva Rahmani, Tyler Stallings, Ellen Zweig, Jerri Allyn, KS Fleming, William Pope.L, Christine Tamblyn, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Barbara T. Smith, Sutart Sherman, Antero Alli

We hope to put the journal up entirely online.
Copies are availble for Libraries and Collectors only at this point.

About The Act

  • Published from 1986 to1991 in New York City by the Performance Project Inc (not-for-profit 501c3).
  • Jeffrey Greenberg, Managing Editor
  • It's purpose was to present "advanced" or "experimental" art.
  • It focused on the personal, internal experience of doing actions rather than the spectacle-like experience usually provided by art-objects and performance art. 
  • The journal is archived in the Museum of Modern Art and in most major museums and libraries.
  • Financial support from the National Endowment for the Arts, The New York State Council for the Arts, and other prestigious public and private funders.

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